Will It Come To This? 1933

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Titles read: "Will it come to this? Just as ocean liners carry lifeboats for use in extremity, will the air-liners of tomorrow carry this kind of automatic life saver?"

United States of America.

M/S of some men standing around a biplane; one of them shows us a new lifesaving contraption...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37443
Sort Number:
PT 165
Time in/Out:
01:13:32:00 / 01:15:48:00
Canister:
PT 165
Film ID:
1074.08
Issue Date:
22/05/1933

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